We stumbled into the Savanna Cultural Center. The entire second floor was taken up by an elaborate 800-square foot HO-scale train layout of a 1930s Savanna, Illinois.
![Savanna Train Layout](https://i0.wp.com/peoplesriverhistory.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Savanna-Train-Layout-750x563.jpg?resize=750%2C563)
The extensive trainset at the Savanna Cultural Center
As you probably know by now, I love tiny miniature things. I have since I was a kid. It is only by the good grace of God, that I am not holed up in a garage somewhere right now adding grimy details with a double ought paintbrush to a tiny little building of my own tiny imaginary town.
![IMG_6529 1](https://i0.wp.com/peoplesriverhistory.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_6529-1-750x563.jpg?resize=750%2C563)
Passenger train moves through the forests north of teeny tiny Savanna
![IMG_6524 1](https://i0.wp.com/peoplesriverhistory.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_6524-1-750x563.jpg?resize=750%2C563)
Teeny Savanna’s tiny scrapyard
![IMG_6523](https://i0.wp.com/peoplesriverhistory.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_6523-750x563.jpg?resize=750%2C563)
Carpenters building tiny houses
![IMG_6522 1](https://i0.wp.com/peoplesriverhistory.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_6522-1-750x563.jpg?resize=750%2C563)
Tiny hobos in a teeny hobo jungle
![IMG_6519 1](https://i0.wp.com/peoplesriverhistory.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_6519-1-750x563.jpg?resize=750%2C563)
Waiting for tiny trains
![IMG_6516 1](https://i0.wp.com/peoplesriverhistory.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_6516-1-750x563.jpg?resize=750%2C563)
Teeny Savanna’s trainyard
![IMG_6515](https://i0.wp.com/peoplesriverhistory.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_6515-750x563.jpg?resize=750%2C563)
Teeny workers working
![IMG_6513 1](https://i0.wp.com/peoplesriverhistory.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_6513-1-750x563.jpg?resize=750%2C563)
Betty Mom’s Bar in Teeny Savanna
![IMG_6512 1](https://i0.wp.com/peoplesriverhistory.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_6512-1-750x563.jpg?resize=750%2C563)
Lumbermill workers
![IMG_6511 1](https://i0.wp.com/peoplesriverhistory.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_6511-1-750x563.jpg?resize=750%2C563)
Passenger train station from the bridge overlooking the trainyard
![IMG_6510](https://i0.wp.com/peoplesriverhistory.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_6510-750x563.jpg?resize=750%2C563)
Teeny newlyweds leaving town for their tiny honeymoon
![IMG_6517 1](https://i0.wp.com/peoplesriverhistory.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_6517-1-750x563.jpg?resize=750%2C563)
Stacey Marie Garcia monster threatens the tiny residents of teeny Savanna
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